Acknowledgments

Our special thanks go to Joyce Maier of Amsterdam
for her assistance in reviewing the content of our
biographical overview and in providing further suggestions
for the accurate presentation of Beethoven life facts.

Breuning, Gerhard von. Memories of Beethoven. From the House of the Black-Robed Spaniards. Edited by Maynard Solomon. Translated from the German by Henry Mins and Maynard Solomon. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.